Perfect Stranger

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I guess this is what authors write about.

His features were drawn with engineer-like precision

And I can only make out the lines from a distance,

With stares and a book that hides his gaze,

Occasionally peering up to steal glances of his own.

Why doesn't he speak to me though his glare lingers?

I wonder about the secrets hidden behind the words he chooses to give attention to.

Am I like a painting in a museum he is just admiring?

He no longer undresses the words he is married to,

As I am his mistress of sight.

Maybe one day he'll read me.

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